Author: Myo Yar Zar
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-16-03
Year: 2016
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M. Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2016
Examination Committee: Soparth Pongquan (Chairperson); Jayant Kumar Routray, Joyee S. Chatterjee (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The research provided the understanding the ground realities of rural mothers on utilization of maternal health services (MHS) provided by Ministry of Health in Myanmar. This research was to analyze the access and utilization of rural women on MHS provided by Myanmar Government specifically on examining the awareness, accessibility, availability and affordability on MHS by rural women on MHS assessing the utilization of MHS by rural women analyzing the factors associated with utilization assessing the satisfaction of and benefits gained from utilization of MHS identifying their problems and needs and providing the recommendations to improve access and utilization and to enhance greater benefits gained for rural mothers. This research focused on Myanmar government’s maternal health program including the provision of three components of MHS such as antenatal, delivery and postnatal cares according to the national standard components of maternal health services. ThaPhyay Khan rural health center located in Thanlyin township of Yangon region was selected as a study area due to the presence of all government health facilities on provision of all components of antenatal, delivery and postnatal care services to rural mothers. It is an evaluation research with survey design using survey questionnaire with120 sampled mothers from six villages near to and far from rural health center. Field observation, key informants interview and focus group discussions were also applied to support the quantitative analysis of the research. The main findings of the research showed that all mothers were highly aware of major components of national standard MHS. Lesser awareness of mothers on some components were found out especially in postnatal period and among the mothers staying far from rural health center. Free services and availability of health services at sub-rural health center
Scholarship Donor(s): Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Note: Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Regional and Rural Development Planning
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